The Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, and ProxySG 6.7…

Description

The Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, and ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2 management consoles do not, under certain circumstances, correctly authorize administrator users. A malicious administrator with read-only access can exploit this vulnerability to access management console functionality that requires read-write access privileges.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• Improper user authorization
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Symantec Corporation · Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG

  • affected ASG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior to 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2

References (3)

• 101530 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1039701 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://www.symantec.com/security-center/network-protection-security-advisories/SA146 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2016-9097](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-9097.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-9097)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 17:33 UTC.